Is the Chatbox the Wrong Interface for AI? Google and Farza think so.

As we try to find the right interface for AI, two builders I respect are offering one hypothesis.

Something shifted this week in how I think about AI product design.

Two things happened the same week. First, Farza, one of the cooler solo builders with taste, shipped Clicky: an AI that lives next to your cursor, sees your screen, hears your questions, and points at the answer. He built it in three weeks. Here’s the demo.

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Here's the new Clicky. It's the simplest interface in the world to talk to AI + spawn agents. It builds Mac apps. It does research to help you find IG micro-influencers. It interacts with native Apple Notes, Calendar, Reminders. Built for consumers, 0 setup. Try today, free.

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Then, Google DeepMind published the first major rethinking of the mouse cursor in 50 years, calling it Magic Pointer. Same idea as Farza! A 1280×800 PNG is ~200KB; on Claude's vision builder and the world’s best-resourced AI lab both ship the same idea in the same week, it’s worth paying attention.

Here’s the argument: the chatbox may have been a transitional interface, not the final one. It was the fastest abstraction to ship. It might not be the best one. And the evidence for what the right interface looks like is now sitting on my Mac menu bar.

This post starts with Clicky the product, then goes further. I’ll give you a design spec for building cursor-layer features into your own product, three prototypes you can run this week, and an audit toolkit to find where your product needs this thinking most.

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Today’s Post

1. What Farza Built With the Cursor Layer

2. Why Google Shipping the Same Thing the Same Week Matters

3. The Cursor Layer Design Spec

4. Three Cursor-Layer Features You Can Prototype This Week

5. Score Your Product This Week